I. 'WOMEN AS GUARD OF HONOUR. General Sir Francis Lloyd at the opening of the Recruiting Hut in Trafalgar Square for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps popularly known in France as the "Waxs".' Preceded...
I. 'HOT STUFF FOR FRITZ. An ammunition train of 9.2 shells going up to the Front.' HA as train passes diagonally left to right pulling open wagons filled with 9.2-inch shells and ammunition boxes - so...
I. 'U.S.A. v MEXICO. In view of the grave situation the American fleet, prepared for all eventualities sails for Mexican waters.' MS off the starboard bow of USS Michigan - the frame cuts the picture ...
A film about the three friends from a village below Karlštejn castle, one of which returns home from the war as a Russian, the second as a French legionnaire and the third as an Italian legionnaire. ...
I. 'MUNITION WORKERS CANTEEN: Women after working on munitions enjoying an excellent dinner served in the canteen at actual cost'. After a brief scene of the women at their workbenches, the sizeable c...
The headlines of the national newspapers announce that Romania has declared war on Austria-Hungary (on August 27, 1916). General mobilization of the Romanian army. On a country road, the troops march ...
Lord Rhondda, the Minister of Food, arrives by car. With him is the Mayor of West Ham, Mr Will Thorne MP. A crowd of men, women and children queue with jugs at the kitchen windows to have soup dispens...
(Missing is an opening sequence showing the tearing up of the treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality.) 'Martyred Belgium' is the title introducing 'scene 2'. Britannia posed beside the figure of 'Belg...
Before moving to the front: Janda (smith) and his wife.
Before moving to the front: Tomeš (farmer) and his wife.
Before moving to the front: Bárta (laborer) and his wife.
The face of Bárta´s wife after his return from the war. The woman cries and hugs her husband.
Jiří Voldán (actor: Vladimír Ch. Vladimírov) and his fiancée Maryša (actress: Suzanne Marwille) with the rifle.
Medium shot of Toman's wife Lída (actress: Marie Rosůlková), his son Vláďa (actor: Zdeněk Záhorský), and Dr, Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), who is shaking Vláďa's hand. Vláďa is wea...